Gloria Whelan Quotes

#1. But what doesn't die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that.

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#2. With a mind as bright as yours you will want to find a proper school to continue your education ... You must continue the education your mother began. Young women must have an education.

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#3. Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.

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#4. I have qualms and wonder what a qualm would look like if you painted it
probably like a bowl of melting ice cream or a dish of Jell-o just before it sets.

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#5. I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn't find my way into their world. They seemed to have a secret code I couldn't decipher.

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#6. People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

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#7. They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.

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#8. You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.

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#9. I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.

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#10. I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.

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#11. I couldn't live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.

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#12. I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn't always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters, but I couldn't remember hating anyone for more than five minutes.

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#13. I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.

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#14. It is hard to give up what you know for what you don't know.

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